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@eine gieten atwt @fitta Lea/s Patent No. 75,851, 'dated March 24, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT IN GUIDES EOE CORN AND SEED-PLANTERS.

@its .tlnlmle nimh tu in tlgn @Entert what mit makitgnttt nf tige sansTO ALL WIIOM IT MAY GONOERN l Be it known that I, ELIJAH C. BROWN, ofthe town of Grawfordsville, in the county of -Montgomery, and in theState of Indiana, have invented an Improved Guide-Stad` for Corn andSeed-Planters; and I do herebyr declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, referene being had to accompanyingdrawings, and'ictters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The nature of the invention consists inthe use of an index andguide-stad in combination with a seed or corn-planter, by means of whichthe corner seed may be planted 'in uniformrows both ways saidguide-statt' Aa'nd indexvf to be made of Wood orV any other suitablematerials.

.To enable othersgslgilled in'the art to make and use my said invention,I proceed t`o describe it more fully,

' as jfollows: i,

The device consists of a horizentalbar, represented by X X of Figure 1and Figure 2 of the accompanying drawings, in which are fixed twoupright staffs, represented respectively by V V and V V', as representedhy figs. -1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings. 'Said device is alsoprovided with a rest-bar-, represented by Z 7i,'-of iig. 2 of theaccompanying drawings.- At one end ef the bar X is a hole, Y,throughwhich it is-intendcd to pass a bolt, around-which the bar X will be freeto move inma vertical pla-ne. i

To use said guide and index, it is attached to the tongue of the drillor seed-planter, as represented in fig. 1, aforesaid; thc bar Z restingon the framework of the machine, seas not to let the` staffs V and Vquite touch the ground. 4Indeed it must be so high, that it will notbreak against ordinary obstructions.

These two staffs, V and V, are so arrangedthat they will stand apart thesame distance as that which supervenes between two rowsof the vegetable'to be planted, and for that purpose are made adjustable by means of arow of holes made to fit the outer guide-staff V. The bar is set on thetongue in such a. way that the distance from the drill or planter-toothwill be the same as between two rows of the vegetable to be planted. l

When the iii-st' row has been run ofi', the drillor planter isjust insuch a position that the outer stad' V-will be over the furrow, then bydriving the drill or planter along in sucha way that the stall' Vaforesaid vwill always he in the first furrow, two parallel furrows willbe produced. When the driver has `passed through the whole breadth ofthe field, and desires to turn round and go back, he lcan turn the stai`over in the direction, as at the dotted line X X", and by pursuing thesame course that he did with the first furrow, will have three parallelfurrows, and so can proceed until the ground is all laid off one way.Then, to plant the seed,vhe has the guide the saine as before, andeachtime, as the staff passes one of the eross-furrows, he causes themachine to drop the seed, which, on account oi' the adaptationaforesaid, will always be in the furrow behind that in which the stall'stands. iiie stall may'be Aturned from side to side, as necessityrequires, in going in dierent directions. Iiy this means it is claimedthat corn and other seed may be planted in uniformly even andequidistant rows. What I claim, and desire to secure by-Letters Patent,is

'Ille index and'guidestali`, hercinbefore described, when the same isconstructed in manner and form in its said several parts, and used forthe purpose and in the way substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing specification, I have hereuntoset my hand, this day of 186 i t ELIJAILC. BROWN Witnesses Wn'snrxe'ronIIeLLowAY, ABRAHAM Hnnn.

